to think cats are better than dogs?

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Well, am I?

Depends on the cat really.

YABVU

Cats are useless.

cats are evil, they eat the food then bugger off, and they walk on kitchen surfaces!

No cats are wierd - your friend one minute, scratching and biting you the next. I wouldn't put up with that from anyone, animal or human.

Dogs are the best.

YANBU my parents dogs drive me mad, I love my cats lol

YANBU
Cats are awesome. Unfathomable, but awesome.

YABU.

Appropriately-sized dogs are also good hotwater bottles - I have a lovely warm dachshund draped over me now. He makes lovely gruntling noises which are much nicer than the lawnmower rasp of a purring cat.

No mice have tried to enter the house, and better still he keeps bird-murdering cats out of the garden.

Anyway, its been scientifically proven that dogs are better than cats well sort of

Cats are fab.....dogs are not. I am currently teaching my DD to say "Daddy, can I have a kitten please?". We have mastered "Daddy kitten please" so nearly there

YABVU -

Dogs love and admire you even especially when you are doing crazy dance moves to your favourite U2 song in the shower.

Cats laugh at said moves and suggest in a blink that they could do better ones if they wanted to but have much better things to do that that!

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dogs are smelly and lick their balls.

than that ...grrr!!!

(I was so nervous about getting 'that' in italics correctly I spoilt my post - waaaaaah!!!)

I sneeze within metres of a cat, and they torment me. Give me a daft waggy-tailed dog who is pathetically grateful to see you, anytime.

Also dogs do really smelly farts and are sex pests.

Dogs have family, cats have staff.

I have a cat and a dog. The dog is a cow sometimes but v lovely. The cat is a pain sometimes but he is furry and purry and lovely. And he is a deep enough sleeper to allow me to indulge in games of cat buckaroo. Dog buckaroo is shit. YANBU

cat buckaroo sounds fun. Dogs are too stupid to play buckaroo. We have a rabbit who quite likes it though.

dogs are smelly and lick their balls.

My dog really isn't smelly and (oddly) he doesn't lick his balls. Or hump. He's a total sweetie.

Cats don't have big doggy eyes. They can't convey the same range of emotions by the drooping or pricking up of their ears. I grew up with cats, was very fond of them (apart from the gratuitous killings and scratchings) but once you've really known a dog, there's just no comparison.

Better at what? Cats- better at looking after themselves, exercising themselves, getting into small spaces. dogs- better at looking pleased to see you, eating whatever is put in front of them, barking when people come to the door.

guess it depends on your lifestyle and needs!

Mind you I have a cat who thinks he's a dog, so maybe my opinion should be discounted.

This thread has reminded me that I ordered an Eddie Izzard box set over a month ago which still hasn't arrived

That New Scientist thing is a desperate attempt by some doggy lover to 'prove' their pets are best. Measures like 'utility' and 'tractability' rather give the game away. But bless them for trying so hard.

Dog owners enjoy having an animal that worships them. It's a psychological flaw, of course, but as long as they pick up after their dumb mutts, I'm prepared to overlook their little foibles.

Whereas on the cat side, one of their hard-one points was 'popularity' - merely a head count. That just means there's a lot of mad cat ladies with two dozen of the blighters...reckon they just put that one in because it would have been too much of a walk-over otherwise

'hard-won'

I must disagree Grimma,having grown up with cats and dogs,though cats more so than dogs.

I love both but in general I prefer cats,though my current dog is a particuarly fine canine specimen,she's very cat like in her ways which only adds to her charm.

My cat is very dog like and as affectionate as any dog you can find. He's always happy to see me,and not just because I'm capable of working a tin opener.